Fri
Mar 16 2018
06:28 pm
By: R. Neal
Resident electric bills spike because town had to buy supplemental energy to power bitcoin miners...
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Wow! This is a surprising
Wow! This is a surprising result of bitcoin, to me. I hope other communities are keeping track of this.